Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Cost: Free

On August 9, 2020 at 8:07AM, the largest recorded earthquake to strike North Carolina occurred near Sparta. The 5.1 magnitude earthquake (MMI 6) was preceded in the days before by several small foreshocks felt by local residents and followed to date by ~100 aftershocks. In this webinar, a multidisciplinary team from NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, USGS, and NC Geological Survey discussed their observations including ground shaking characterization, geological features, and structural damage assessment.

Thursday, 10 September 2020
Cost: Paid

In this webinar, attendees gained an understanding of key concepts needed for lifeline systems to be resilient to earthquakes and other hazards. Functionality and operability are continuous expressions useful for measuring lifeline system resilience. These expressions are explored along with the basic lifeline services and their recoveries needed to ensure communities can achieve their resilience objectives./p>

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Cost: Paid

This webinar explored moving from performance-based engineering to multi-disciplinary community resilience, in which engineering merges with social, economic, and information science. The webinar used 15 years of whole building shake table tests of resilient and non-resilient wood-frame apartment buildings to enter this discussion from an earthquake engineering perspective.

Monday, 10 August 2020

Presented by the EERI Younger Members Committee, this webinar presented recent studies that utilize physics-based simulations to identify the important characteristics of earthquake ground motions and expected structural response. Physics-based simulations of earthquake ground motions have steadily emerged as an alternative for seismic risk assessment of civil structures, particularly for regions expected to experience large-magnitude and rare earthquakes, for which few observational data is available.

Thursday, 23 July 2020

This Learning from Earthquakes webinar provided an overview of the impacts from the M5.7 March 18, 2020 Magna, Utah earthquake. In this multidisciplinary webinar, attendees gained insights covering science, engineering, and response aspects of the earthquake. Attendees also learned how the earthquake affected the natural and built environment, as well as about current mitigation efforts in Utah.